Local knife sharpening service just butchered 3 of my knives.

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This is why I beg people not to give their knives to some Joe Blow at the gun shop or gun show or anywhere else sitting there with power equipment...there's a very good chance it ain't gonna turn out well...and a ton of these threads on BF. Sharpening is an art, and folks who are willing to give up their knives for a quick and dirty 5 minute edge generally get what they pay for along with blades with years of life taken off. Folks willing to provide a "churn and burn" service like that are usually more interested in the quick buck than how your blades look and perform in the end. To really get your money's worth, seek out some of the guys on here and check out their work.
 
Magnumfloyd said:
Visitor message sent let me know if I can help you out if now one else hasn't done so already.
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Thanks.
I'm not sure if this can be done, but since the Delica blade is smaller than the PM2 blade, maybe the blade can be taken down to a Delica size. I'd be ok with that.
 
SincerelyNow said:
Wow, pretty lame to blame this on his race or bilingual ability.

Especially when you're English speaking, presumably non-Latino self apparently can't sharpen a knife yourself. With perfectly decent gear at that!
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Wow, pretty lame to turn something obviously not about race into something about race. I'm assuming if the man would've done a good job, there wouldn't have been an issue.

Stop being a pseudo-issue monger and show some empathy.. Brother just got a raw deal no matter what the race was.

But for real though, I dig @kamadong 's perspective here! Definitely a great outlook
 
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It looks as though the person who did the sharpening didn’t take the edge back to the ricasso, and he paused when changing directions just before that point, removing a lot of metal and leaving a kind of recurve. I don’t see an easy way to fix that without removing a lot more metal, which would just make the situation worse.

But if you can round off the lines of the unsharpened part just before the ricasso to smooth out the transition from edge to ricasso, improving the looks. Then just reprofile the rest of the edge to match one of the stone angles on your Sharpmaker.

Personally, I think this is a job for a professional. I’d send these photos to Clay at Wicked Edge for his advice. He’s putting out a line of non-power knife sharpeners, and some people use his system to run their own sharpening businesses. He’s also good about sharing his own expertise.

I think you have three choices at this point:

Get professional help to restore the edges, fixing the ricasso transition and fixing the profiles and points. You could even have a mirrored edge put on them to turn a sad experience into one that makes you proud of your knives.

You could just sharpen them on your Sharpmaker and live with it.

Or you could use this experience to justify buying a Wicked Edge or Edge Pro sharpening system. The Sharpmaker is useful and handy, but it’s really designed for maintaining a sharp edge that is already correctly profiled to match one of the stone angles on the Sharpmaker. Just practice on a cheap knife first to develop your skill. I always prefer the option that leaves you more empowered.
 
Ribeyeguy said:
Lame my a$$. I explained I was having trouble with the tips of the knives, and yes I can sharpen a knife myself but I'm no expert. Yup, I blame this on his inability to effectively communicate. Thanks for chiming Mr. Liberal and have a nice day.:)
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Typical.

You displace your lack of skill and judgement on something another man can't control.

Weak moral character.

I've never voted Dem my whole life. I'm just not a bigot.

That name calling was cute, though. You seem to have a habit of doing that to other people when you're in the wrong. I'd work on that, if I was you. It's emasculating to avoid personal responsibility.
 
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clanderson said:
Wow, pretty lame to turn something obviously not about race into something about race. I'm assuming if the man would've done a good job, there wouldn't have been an issue.

Stop being a pseudo-issue monger and show some empathy.. Brother just got a raw deal no matter what the race was.

But for real though, I dig @kamadong 's perspective here! Definitely a great outlook
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You need to up your reading comprehension.

I'm not the one who goes blaming "jose" when I make a stupid decision. He's the only person who made this about race or ethnicity.

Do you go blaming "Leroy" when you make a dumb decision and a Black man happens to be a part of it? Any "Changs" ever piss you off and you go out of your way to mention that?

I'm not calling the ACLU over this, I'm just calling him out on some low class bigotry. Sorry that huwts yo feewings.

Free speech goes both ways.

Raw deal? More like a long series of incredibly stupid decisions.
 
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SincerelyNow said:
You need to up your reading comprehension.

I'm not the one who goes blaming "jose" when I make a stupid decision.

Do you go blaming "Leroy" when you make a dumb decision and a Black man happens to be a part of it? Any "Changs" ever piss you off and you go out of your way to mention that?

I'm not calling the ACLU over this, I'm just calling him out on same low class bigotry. Sorry that huwts yo feewings.

Free speech goes both ways.

Raw deal? More like a long series of incredibly stupid decisions.
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You really need to get that chip off your shoulder brother. It's gonna eat you up along with everyone around you.

No matter how much you explain it away.
 
clanderson said:
You really need to get that chip off your shoulder brother. It's gonna eat you and everyone around you up.

No matter how much you explain it away.
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Why are you projecting and not confronting the meat of the issue when you're the one who replied to me?

That's a serious sign of a lack of mental acuity necessary to approach the subject matter.

If you can't handle the conversation, that's fine.

Ad hominems are the refuge of the intellectual coward.
 
SincerelyNow said:
Typical.

You displace your lack of skill and judgement on something another man can't control.

Weak moral character.

I've never voted Dem my whole life. I'm just not a bigot.

That name calling was cute, though. You seem to have a habit of doing that to other people when you're in the wrong. I'd work on that, if I was you. It's emasculating to avoid personal responsibility.
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You're the one that pulled the race card. I initially said from my first post that "I should blame nobody but myself for trusting Jose who spoke broken English if that." His name tag said Jose so I'm assuming that's his name. I think it was a combination of me being naive and thinking he knew what he was doing when he obviously didn't, and him not being able to understand what I was asking him and telling him. He just pointed, nodded, and said he liked the PM2. It's water under the bridge at this point and I'm moving on. Good day sir.
 
Thanks for the advice and support fellas. I sent off my Barlow to GEC so we'll see if anything can be done with possibly changing the blade. As far as the PM2, I've reached out to a few of the pros on here in the Custom Shop services offered sub forum, to see what they can do.
 
Ribeyeguy said:
You're the one that pulled the race card. I initially said from my first post that "I should blame nobody but myself for trusting Jose who spoke broken English if that." His name tag said Jose so I'm assuming that's his name. I think it was a combination of me being naive and thinking he knew what he was doing when he obviously didn't, and him not being able to understand what I was asking him and telling him. He just pointed, nodded, and said he liked the PM2. It's water under the bridge at this point and I'm moving on. Good day sir.
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Cheers.

I misunderstood then. It came off like you were flippantly calling him "jose" as a joke and trying to place the blame on some part of his background.

My apologies. God Bless.
 
Sorry to hear, but frankly why not learn to sharpen yourself? Get Edge pro or something and go for it.
 
It took a ruined Paramilitary 2 and Manix 2 by a "professional" to convince me to start sharpening on my own. They took off tons of steel and the edges looked like they had gone through a mulcher. The knives weren't even sharp after. When I pointed this out they blamed it on the steel, which was S30v! They told me that bad steels can get sharp.
 
Painful lesson to learn.
I've purchased one of those "pull through" knife sharpeners to give it a try on an old kitchen knife...glad it was only a few bucks, as was the knife...all it did was scrape some metal off the edge leaving a very coarse..."toothy" like a snaggle toothed shark lol...more like a saw than a knife edge.

I was an apprentice meat cutter for a short time in my youth and the meat cutters training me had an awesome tri stone system that sat in a bath of mineral oil. The stones were approx. 4" wide and nearly 18" long and very well cared for. Their knives were like razor blades and kept that way. They did not nick bones when dressing a side and watching them slice through a sirloin was pretty neat to watch as the knife slid through in one pass cutting a perfectly smooth steak.
I learned how to sharpen from the head meat cutter but there were no angles, etc. involved...nearly flush to the blade but they would always start "break down day" by sharpening all their needed knives.
They would never consider allowing someone else to sharpen their knives. I was never allowed to use "their" personal knives just the company knives which were still quite good.

Imagine all the people out there that bring their knives in to "sharpeners" such as Ribeye describes and think the knife they get back is now "sharp"...
 
Those aren't just over sharpened, they're extremely poorly sharpened. That really sucks.
 
This is a good opportunity to learn how to sharpen yourself. Get an Arkansas stone and an inexpensive, soft kitchen knife, and grind away metal to your heart's content. Learn the process, experiment, and commit it to muscle memory. It won't take that long and when you decide to move up in equipment you'll make much better decisions.
 
calc said:
This is a good opportunity to learn how to sharpen yourself. Get an Arkansas stone and an inexpensive, soft kitchen knife, and grind away metal to your heart's content. Learn the process, experiment, and commit it to muscle memory. It won't take that long and when you decide to move up in equipment you'll make much better decisions.
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I hope the op is up to learning how to sharpen his own knives. So far he hasn't expressed any interest in doing as such. Why own knives if you can't maintain them. Unless you are solely a collector which doesn't seem to be the case, learn to sharpen.
 
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